Match Discussion: Round 14 vs South Sydney @ Stadium Australia

[slotmachine]

No game awareness hoy. Go inside and Barnett scores

 

[perverse]

Hoy actually did well twice in a row there. Credit where it's due.

 

[Zoidberg]

This is probably the best result we could have hoped for. Not embarrassing.
We have nothing in attacking structure without Pearce and Ponga.

 

[Jono078]

Keen to see what AOB says. I’m sure it’ll be mostly praise and maybe we performed as best as we can expect?
It’s an improvement but Rabbitohs never got out of second gear either.

 

[perverse]

Haha Lattrell is completely cooked. What a weapon, though.

 

[slotmachine]

Didn't mind that at all. Piss Mann and Hoy off for actual footballers and we win.

 

[NoSchitSherlock]

Nowhere near good enough.
Long term issues with RH edge defence and poor kick return metres exposed.
Hoy should never play firsts again.
Positives are Young and Clifford.

 

[Jono078]

We need to get someone like Cooper Cronk as an assistant coach, he knows it all. Structures, situational football, everything we need to improve.

 

[perverse]

Didn't mind that at all. Piss Mann and Hoy off for actual footballers and we win.

Yeah, we can build on that very much with Pearce, Ponga, Hunt and Klem hopefully back next week. I just hope they can blow the cobwebs out quick, because 3 of those 4 haven't played much footy in a fairly long time now.

 

[slotmachine]

Yeah, we can build on that very much with Pearce, Ponga, Hunt and Klem hopefully back next week. I just hope they can blow the cobwebs out quick, because 3 of those 4 haven't played much footy in a fairly long time now.

And we can't afford to drop games against the shit teams now. I'm quietly confident though

 

[The Axe of Druss]

Our attack is slow motion, no option stuff. It's deeper than just a couple of players missing. We have no runners coming in at angles asking questions and teams are just eating up our ball carriers at their leisure.

 

[perverse]

We need to get someone like Cooper Cronk as an assistant coach, he knows it all. Structures, situational football, everything we need to improve.

I'm quietly confident we'll see improvements there just based on the troops returning. We might slide back into "give it to Ponga" early on, but hey... give it to Ponga is actually miles better than what we've had lately.

 

[perverse]

And we can't afford to drop games against the shit teams now. I'm quietly confident though

I've got some confidence that they're going to rip in and have a crack at making a run. I don't know what comes of it, it's probably going to be too little too late... but yeah it's nice to just look forward to watching us play again. I'll take that after the past 2 months.

 

[perverse]

Our attack is slow motion, no option stuff. It's deeper than just a couple of players missing. We have no runners coming in at angles asking questions and teams are just eating up our ball carriers at their leisure.

I agree with this, but you need someone organising it too - and giving blokes a rev up when they're not doing it.

 

[The Axe of Druss]

I've got some confidence that they're going to rip in and have a crack at making a run. I don't know what comes of it, it's probably going to be too little too late... but yeah it's nice to just look forward to watching us play again. I'll take that after the past 2 months.

I honestly don't know where you're getting this confidence from mate. You're a more optimistic man than me

 

[perverse]

I honestly don't know where you're getting this confidence from mate. You're a more optimistic man than me

I'm not saying they'll get the biscuits at the end of the day, but I think there's a bit of belief growing there over the past few weeks - and if you inject a good chunk of our salary cap back onto the field, I think you'll see a different team running out there.

Replacing Hoy for Ponga on its own is a huge shift in the way the team plays. The rest of them will all have their impact too.

 

[Zoidberg]

Worst thing to come from tonight is Best injured again.

 

[slotmachine]

Replacing Hoy for Ponga on its own is a huge shift in the way the team plays.

It's probably a 20 point shift.

 

[NoSchitSherlock]

 

[Jono078]

So hopefully next week looks like this;

1 Ponga
2 Hunt
3 Young
4 Mann
5 Toa
6 Clifford
7 Pearce
8 Klemmer
9 Brailey
10 Saifiti
11 Fitzgibbon
12 Jones
13 Barnett
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14 Watson
15 Saifiti
16 Sue
17 whoever